When it comes to putting on a festival, Old Colorado City seems to have the knack. The city closes down four blocks of Colorado Avenue, the main street through town; brings in dozens of booths to fill up the empty street, making sure a substantial number of them, cooking up mouth-watering food; and two dozen bands to draw in the crowds. Continue Reading Old Colorado City to celebrate Territory Days

There’s an aircraft museum at the Pueblo Memorial Airport, just a few miles east of the town of Pueblo. The museum, the Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum, is open every day of the week, and has two hangars filled with aircraft, artifacts and uniforms from several branches of service. Continue Reading Free admission Saturday at Pueblo Aircraft museum

Colorado has an illustrious history of mining. The Pikes Peak Gold Rush brought unprecedented numbers of people into the region who helped build a mining industry that contributed to the industrial and technological advances of the late 19th and 20th centuries. Continue Reading “Underground Mine Lighting” exhibit

Fort Garland was built in 1858 in what is now southwestern Colorado. It was built as a replacement fort for Fort Massachusetts, just 6 miles away. Fort Massachusetts had proven to be poorly located strategically, and also was subject to extreme winter weather. Continue Reading Colorado’s frontier Army fort